My daughter Angela and I went on a night stroll in our neighborhood, Colonia Hipodromo. It’s a middle-class community next to the racetrack (now the Cholos soccer stadium) and near to the border. Even with the pandemic, most shops on the main drag are open and with lots of people. When I was very young…

After five months at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, I returned to Tijuana to spend the holiday with the family. I like to drive around the city, see changes, and what is going up regarding residential towers. I suspect that many projects have slowed their construction schedule, while others could not begin due…

I have been giving it a thought to buy a 3d printer for my small office. The ideal situation would be to have the printer produce small components that we can use to build model houses based on a designed brick. Our work with  Fundacion Esperanza has relied on their 30-year system using a non-mortar…

2020 Border Innovation Challenge We won the award for Audience Choice –   The revitalization of the Tijuana River channel as a solar power farm and binational water remediation infrastructure. A project that brings back the river canal to Tijuana communities with pedestrians and public spaces along the 11-mile channel. See other winners here https://rady.ucsd.edu/centers/ciid/border-innovation-challenge/  

What a Locally Designed Border Might Look Like Local entrepreneurs, government officials, architects, artists and land use experts have floated many ideas over the past several decades that envision a very different border than the one we have – one that embraces the idea that the border is one community and one natural environment.  I…

ON THE BORDER Aquí una entrevista que me hicieron en San Diego sobre Tijuana / Here is a great interview on Tijuana I participated in. http://www.c3sandiego.org/2020Dialogues?fbclid=IwAR3QWBblnEPpEbWZWmNjOOt4KUvFJSMKD23r5O1WoMvUUhZTaw4tl9lJgJw

The Border Innovation Challenge, now in its second year, is a business plan competition focused on the challenges presented by the international border. This competition focuses on bringing to the spotlight promising solutions and technologies to meet the region’s ports of entry, efficiency, and security challenges. Supported by the Smart Border Coalition, the program is…

Why I am still a Modernist As a professor passing through the heartland of America, I want to point out a series of concepts that I find interesting. The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard known for such great books as Simulation and Simulacra wrote a type of diary of his experience in the US, titled “America”.…